Tag Archives: cancel culture

We Need Disturbing Lit If We Are to Grow

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2023

If we want literature to improve our lives, often we must read–and teach–works that unsettle.

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Pushing Back against the Purity Police

By Robin Bates | Published: February 21, 2022

While not as bad as fascists for censoring reading materials, leftwing purists present their own problems.

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Should We Cancel This Children’s Classic?

By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2021

Should we cancel “Little Black Sambo,” which I loved as a child. I wrestle with the question here.

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Milton on Cancel Culture

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2021

Yale professor Bromwich applies Milton to the cancel culture debate.

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How Whites Cancel Readers of Color

By Robin Bates | Published: March 7, 2021

Rightwingers complain that liberals are canceling Dr. Seuss. Real cancelation, however, uses racial stereotyping, of which Seuss was occasionally guilty.

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A Fable about Cancel Culture

By Robin Bates | Published: July 8, 2020

While the left doesn’t practice cancel culture to the degree that the right does, it is still a concern, as a recent open letter to “Harper’s” makes clear. So does this Scott Bates fable.

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